Xuan Dam Village, Hidden Beach & Temple Cycling

Cycle through the rice fields and everyday village life of Xuan Dam, on a route that stops where locals actually go — not where tour buses do. After an easy-paced ride and an unplanned pause at whichever village garden or home happens to be open that day, you'll leave the bikes at the trailhead and walk 20–30 minutes down to Chut Chit — a small, no-facilities beach still known mostly to locals, with a light picnic waiting on the sand. The ride back passes Goi Temple, a quiet spiritual site tucked into the hills and rarely visited by outsiders, before ending with lunch and downtime by the pool at Cat Ba Ecolodge.